Nov. 15.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 2799

Schedule hereto to borrow the sums set out therein, and it is expedient that such consent should issue:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby consent to the raising of the loans hereinafter mentioned by the several local authorities set out in the Schedule hereto, and it is hereby declared that this Order in Council is made under the provisions in that behalf of the Finance Act, 1919, and shall operate accordingly as a consent of the Governor-General in Council to the raising of the said loans.

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SCHEDULE.

AUCKLAND Electric-power Board (for completing the purchase of the undertaking from the Auckland City Council) .. .. .. .. £250,000
Onehunga Borough Council (for road and footpath formation) .. .. .. .. 75,000
Onehunga Borough Council (for water-mains) .. 9,000
Wairoa Borough Council (for installing a water-supply) .. .. .. .. 44,000
Central Electric-power Board (for reticulation and supplying electric power) .. .. .. 20,000
Kaponga Town Board (for the purchase, erection, and installation of electric lighting and power headworks, plant, machinery, materials, &c.) .. 10,000
Hauraki Plains County Council (for construction of bitumen roads in the Turua S.R.A.) .. .. 7,750
Te Kuiti Borough Council (for street improvements) 6,000
Southland County Council (for constructing a bridge over the New River Estuary, and approaches thereto) .. .. .. .. 5,000
Eketahuna County Council (for deviation of Hamua-Hukanui Road) .. .. .. .. 1,000
Eketahuna County Council (for metalling Pah Valley Road) .. .. .. .. 800
Manurewa Town Board (for the formation and metalling of roads, and the formation and surfacing of footpaths) .. .. .. .. 1,110
Pahiatua County Council (for paying a further contribution to the Manawatu Gorge Board of Control) .. .. .. .. 1,100
Pahiatua Borough Council (for construction of the Manawatu Gorge Road by widening it) .. 1,000
Raglan Town Board (for erecting offices and library) 500
Waikohu County Council (for forming Raumata Road) .. .. .. .. 300

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting-Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Consenting to stopping Portions of Road in Block VIII, Hamilton Survey District, Cambridge Road District.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House at Wellington, this 14th day of November, 1923.

Present:

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred by the Public Works Act, 1908, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby consent to the Cambridge Road Board stopping the portions of road described in the Schedule hereto.

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SCHEDULE.

APPROXIMATE areas of the pieces of road permitted to be stopped:—

A. R. P. Adjoining or passing through
2 2 15·5 Allotment 96 and W. pn. of 163 on D.P. 2583.
0 2 4·4 Lot 1 of part Allotment 176 on D P. 9572.
2 0 37·3 Part Allotment 176 on D.P. 2583.
1 2 30·3 Lot 1 on D.P. 11179.
2 0 20 Lot 2 on D.P. 11179.

Situated in Hautapu Parish, Block VIII, Hamilton Survey District (Auckland R.D.). (S.O. 22042.)

In the Auckland Land District; as the same are more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 57647, deposited in the office of the Minister of Public Works at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured green.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Regulation under the Meat-export Control Act, 1921–22, prescribing Proportion of Levy payable to Customs Department.—Notice No. Ag. 2314.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 7th day of November, 1923.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR F. H. D. BELL, G.C.M.G., K.C.,
PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

IN pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred upon him by the Meat-export Control Act, 1921–22, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby make the following regulation for the purposes of the said Act.

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REGULATION.

THE proportion of levy to be deducted in respect of the services of the Collectors and other officers of Customs shall be 1 per cent. of the levy collected.

C. A. JEFFERY,
Acting Clerk of the Executive Council.

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Constituting the Manawatu Rabbit District.—Notice No. Ag. 2318.

JELLICOE, Governor-General.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government Buildings at Wellington, this 7th day of November, 1923.

Present:

THE HONOURABLE SIR F. H. D. BELL, G.C.M.G., K.C.,
PRESIDING IN COUNCIL.

WHEREAS by section sixty-nine of the Rabbit Nuisance Act, 1908 (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), as amended by the Rabbit Nuisance Amendment Act, 1918, it is provided that the Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council gazetted, on petition in that behalf from a majority of the ratepayers therein, constitute and declare any part of New Zealand defined in such Order in Council a district for the purposes of Part III of the said Act:

And whereas a petition in accordance with the provisions of the said Act has been received, asking that the lands described in the Schedule hereto be constituted and declared a rabbit district for the purposes of Part III of the said Act:

Now, therefore, His Excellency the Governor-General of the Dominion of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the powers and authorities conferred on him by the said Act and its amendments, and acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said Dominion, doth hereby constitute by the specific name of “the Manawatu Rabbit District” and declare that part of New Zealand defined in the Schedule hereto to be a district for the purposes of Part III of the said Act; and doth hereby further declare that the Board of Trustees for the said district shall in terms of the said Act consist of eight members.

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SCHEDULE.

COMMENCING at a point in the Rangitikei River opposite where the Ohakea Terrace Road junctions with the Bull's-Sandon Road at the southern end of the Bull's Bridge, thence in a south-westerly direction along the said Ohakea Terrace Road to its junction with McDonell's Road; thence in the same direction along McDonell's Road to Gust's Road and the north-east boundary of Section 354, Block XV, Rangitoto Survey District; thence along the eastern boundaries of Sections 354, 355, 356, and 360, Block XV, Rangitoto Survey District, to Taylor's Road; thence eastward along Taylor's Road to Frecklington's Road; thence south-westerly along Frecklington's Road to the north-west boundary of Section 9s, Makowhai Soldier Settlement, Block II, Te Kawa Survey District; thence eastward along the northern boundaries of the said Section 9s and Section 10s and Section 11s to the north-west boundary of Section 12s; thence in a southerly direction to the north-west boundary of Section 17s; thence eastward along the northern boundaries of Sections 17s, 18s, and 19s to Section 35, Block III, Te Kawa Survey District; thence along the western and northern boundaries of Section 35 to the Foxton-Sandon Road; thence in a southerly direction along the said road to the Rongotea Road; thence in a south-easterly direction to north-east corner of Section 38,